Re: upgrading to IE6 on w2k servers

[Mircea MITU <mmitu () bitdefender com>]

On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 12:53 -0500, Ant wrote:
> I wholeheartedly agree. Using IE for anything but updates on a server
> is just asking for trouble. Even when doing Windows updates, I would
> recommend testing them on another box first. I have had too many
> updates hose my workstation to trust Windows updates without testing
> them first.

But there's no alternative way to update Win boxes except using IE? I.e
an update management server which can be remotely controlled from any
browser or command-line scripts? Or something similar to:
ssh to win box
c:\> update_client check_for_updates
c:\> update_client update_all / update_program1..n

or program those updates into a task scheduler?

Using IE for update tasks looks like a very dumb idea.



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